Thursday, 8:30 - 10:00 AM (Rm 201a)
Core I-Zonal Flows and Structures
Pat Diamond (UCSD) - Saturation of Zonal Flows by Shearing Feedback on the Drift Wave Spectrum Eun-jin Kim (UCSD) - Dynamics of Zonal Flow Insability and Saturation of Drift Wave Turbulence Yanik Saranzin - (Euratom - CEA) - Generic Model of Avalanche-like Transport Controlled by Zonal Flows Ghassan Antar (UCSD)- On Existence & Universality of Convective Radial Transport |
Thursday, 8:30 - 10:00 AM (Rm 201b)
Fast Particle Transport I
Ambrogio Fasoli (MIT) - Experimental Studies of Wave-Particle Interactions on JET Frederick Skiff (U. of Iowa) - Electrostatic Degrees of Freedom in Non-Maxwellian Plasmas James Van Dam - Kinetic Stability of Very High Beta Plasmas
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Thursday, 8:30 - 10:00 AM (Rm 202)
H-mode I: NSTX; Role of Neutrals
Rajesh Maingi - Characterization of Initial H mode Discharges in NSTX R.J. Colchin - A Predator/Prey Model for the L-H Transition R.J. Groebner - Role of Neutrals in the H-mode Pedestal Structure
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Thursday, 10:30 AM - 12 PM (Rm 201a)
Core II- Flows and Structures (2) , Electron thermal transport: Critical Gradients
Stephanie Champeaux (UCSD) - Dynamics of Streamer Formation & the Impact on Turbulent Transport from Drift Modes Ozgur Gurcan (UCSD) - Streamer Generation via Secondary Instability of Coherent Drift-ITG modes Dan Baker (GA) - Ion Temperature Critical Gradients in DIII-D Tuong Hoang - Critical Threshold in Electron Transport on Tore Supra |
Thursday, 10:30 - 12 PM (Rm 201b)
Fast Particle Transport II
Boris Breizman - Alfven Mode Cascades with Time-Dependent Frequencies Gerrit Kramer (PPPL) - The Magnetic Safety Factor Before and After Sawteeth Investigated with Toroidicity & Ellipticity-induced Alfven Eigenmodes General Discussion
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Thursday, 10:30 - 12 PM (Rm 202)
H-mode II: EDA, Quiescent H-Modes and Edge Similarity
Martin Greenwald - EDA H-mode and its Relation to the Microstability of the Pedestal Charles M. Greenfield - Transport Properties of the Quiescent Double-Barrier Regime QH-mode on DIII-D Rick Moyer - Edge Similarity Experiments on C-Mod and DIII-D |
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Thursday 1:00 - 3:30 PM Posters only. Session until 3:30; remain up through 5 PM Friday |
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Thursday 3:30 - 5:30 PM (Rm 201b)
Thermal Transport, Experiment: Critical Gradients , Transient Responses
Sandro Jacchia - Electron Transport and Temperature Critical Gradient Length in FTU ECH Experiments Carlo Sozzi (IFP-CNR) - Preferred Temperature Profiles in Stationary ECH Experiments Ken Gentle - Sawteeth as a Measure of Electron Stiffness &endash; Comparison of C-Mod and DIII-D Jim DeBoo - Modulated ECH Studies on DIII-D Frederic Imbeaux - Evidence of Critical Te Gradient in Electron Heat Transport by Modeling of ECH Modulation Experiments in ASDEX-U |
Thursday 3:30 - 5:30 PM (Rm 201a)
Core III - Barriers and Transport Control: Double Barrier Regimes
Catherine Fiore (MIT) - Study of Internal Transport Barriers on Alcator C-Mod Charles M. Greenfield (GA) Transport Properties of the Quiescent Double Barrier Jean-Noel Leboeuf - Comparisons of Nonlinear Global Gyrokinetic Calculations with Expl Results for DIII-D-like plasmas Diego del-Castillo-Negrete (ORNL) - High Confinement Modes with Multiple, Shear-flow-induced, Transport Barriers Aike Wang (Southwestern Institute of Physics, Chengdu, China) - Synergistic Effects of Safety Factor and Sheared Flows on Internal Transport Barriers in Reverse Shear Plasmas |
Thursday 3:30 - 5:30 PM (Rm 213)
Modelling I: Profiles and Profile Dynamics; Tools
Jon Kinsey (GA) - Relative Roles of ExB shear and Alpha Stabilization in Predicting ITBs Vassili Parail (JET) - Predictive Modelling of JET Plasmas with Edge and Core Transport Barriers Glenn Bateman (Lehigh) - Improved Transport and Edge Models for Integrated Modelling Codes A.L. Rogister (Julich) - First principle model of internal transport barriers in negative central shear discharges
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Thursday 3:30 - 5:30 PM (Rm 202)
H-mode III: Turbulence Dynamics
George McKee - Studies of Turbulence Flow Shear Dynamics with BES on DIII-D C. Holland - Increased Nonlinear Coupling Between Turbulence and Low Frequency Fluctuations at the L-H Transition Paul Terry - A Critical Assessment of Transport in Strong Probe-Induced Flow Shear
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Friday, 8:30 - 10 AM (Rm 201b)
Electron Thermal Transport: Theory, Simulation
Jim Callen (U. Wisconsin) - Possible Electron Thermal Transport Processes T.S. Hahm - Gyrokinetic Simulations of Electron Transport and Confinement Scaling Roger Jasper (FOM) - Electron Transport Barriers and Filaments in TEXTOR-94
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Friday, 8:30 - 10 AM (Rm 201a)
Core IV: Barriers, Microstability Analysis
Clarisse Bourdelle (PPPL) - Microinstability Analysis of Experimental NSTX Plasmas Robert Budny (PPPL) - Microturbulence and Flow Shear Calculations for High-Performance JET ITB Plasmas Michael Shats (Australian National University) - First Experimental Evidence of Non-Ambipolarity of Fluctuation-Driven Transport and the Role of the Finite Larmor Radius T. Bose (Columbia University) - A Basic Experiment on Isotope Scaling of Transport |
Friday, 8:30 - 10 AM (Rm 202)
Fast Particle Transport III
Henrik Bindslev (FOM) - Fast ion Dynamics Measured by Thomson Scattering Bill Heidbrink (UC Irvine) - Neutral Particle Measurements of the Pitch Angle Scattering Rate Takashi Mutoh (NIFS) - High Energy Particle Behavior in LHD General Discussion |
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Friday, 10:30 AM - 12 PM (Rm 201b)
Electron & Transient Thermal Transport: Experiment
Max Austin (Auburn) - Transport and Rational q Surfaces in DIII-D NCS Plasmas King-Lap Wong (PPPL) - Fast Electrons as Test Particles of Electron Transport Paola Mantica (Jon Kinsey, V. Parail) - Perturbative Transport Studies in JET Optimised Shear Plasmas |
Friday, 10:30 AM - 12 PM (Rm 202)
Modelling II
Andris Dimits (LLNL) - Results on Toroidal ITG Turbulence from Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Simulations Ron Waltz (GA) - Continuum Gyrokinetic Turbulence Simulations with Profile Shear Stabilization and Broken GyroBohm Scaling in a Finite Radial Annulus Scott Parker (Colorado) - Kinetic Electron Effects on Zonal Flows X.M. Qiu (Southwestern Institute of Physics, Chengdu, China) - Optimization of Electron Density and Temperature Profiles in Tokamaks via Safety Factor |
Friday, 10:30 AM - 12 PM (Rm 201a)
Core/L-H Talks/Discussion: Turbulence Diagnostics and Analysis I
Tony Peebles (UCLA) - Recent Results and Future Plans for Core Turbulence Measurements on DIII-D C. Rost (MIT) - Comparison of Edge Fluctuation Measurements from PCI, BES, Probes, and Reflectometry on DIII-D Raffi Nazikian (PPPL) Results and 2-D Simulation of Correlation Reflectometry on JT-60 William A. Amatucci (NRL) - Laboratory Investigation of the Plasma Response to Strongly Sheared Flows |
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Friday, 1:30 - 3 PM (Rm 201b)
Electron thermal transport/Modelling
Bill Dorland (U. of Maryland) - Collisionality Scaling of Anomalous Transport Frank Jenko (IPP) - Physics of Electron Profile Stiffness Bruce Scott (IPP) - Physics of Zonal Flows in Drift Wave Turbulence in Tokamak Geometry Arnold Kritz (Lehigh) - The National Transport Code Collaboration (NTCC) Discussion
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Friday, 1:30 - 3 PM (Rm 202)
Fast Particles IV
Nikolai Gorelenkov (PPPL) - Sub-Ion Cyclotron Freq. Modes in NSTX as Compressional AE Instabilities M. Gryaznevich (Culham) - Energetic Particle-driven MHD on STs Donald Spong (ORNL) - Energetic Particle Physics in Low Aspect Ratio Stellarators
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Friday, 1:30 - 3 PM (Rm 201a)
Core/L-H: Turbulence Diagnostics and Analysis II: Experiment
George McKee - Studies of Turbulence Flow Shear Dynamics with BES on DIII-D Mark Gilmore (UCLA) - Application of Complex Dynamics Analysis to DIII-D Turbulence Data William Nevins (LLNL) - Analysis and Characterization Seen in Computer Simulations Dave Ross (U. Texas) - Turbulence Simulation and Comparison with Experiment |
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Friday, 3:30 - 5:00 PM (Rm 213) Modelling Discussion
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Friday, 3:30 - 5:00 PM (Rm 202) L-H Discussion |
Friday, 3:30 - 5:00 PM (Rm 201a) Core/Transient Transport Discussion |
Friday, 3:30 - 5:00 PM (Rm 201b) Fast Particle Transport Discussion |